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This 3 page paper examines the concept of hooking up, where it came from and where it is going. The social change is analyzed.
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relationships to which sex is tied, young people have "friends with benefits" or have sex with strangers at parties. The idea of hooking up is to have some sort of
sexual experience without getting further involved. Is this really new? In the past, people would have "one night stands" but those were few and far between, and not the norm.
McGinn (2004) writes: "Skeptics ask whether hooking up is really any different than the one-night-stands college students have had for decades. Most researchers believe it is, but its hard to
prove. The difficulty stems from the fact that older research focused on "casual sex," usually defined as an encounter that includes intercourse. Since many modern hookups stop short of all-the-way
sex, its hard to make apples-to-apples comparisons" (p.44). Today, it seems, that more and more young people are hooking up and forgoing the intimate relationship that is generally associated
with human sexuality. If this is a new trend, what might have caused it? After all, the generation that is in its twenties and thirties now have parents who were
hippies during the 1960s, so what is so unique about sex with strangers? First and foremost, the present generation accepts the "establishment." During the 1960s, there was a strong anti-war
movement and a strong movement against anything consider to be conservative or an institution. Testing boundaries of sexuality was a part of that. It was the start of homosexuals coming
out of the proverbial closet. In fact, in the homosexual community, hooking up was par for the course. It was a way to meet other men, for example, and would
be considered normal in that community that had no expectations anyway. In other words, a homosexual man would not worry about bringing s virgin home to meet his mother.
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